From Apps To Apples—
NHS Students Create A Mobile Application
By Eliza Hallabeck
After two semesters worth of work, students in Newtown High Schoolâ...
BOF’s Gaston, Portnoy Won’t Seek Reelection In November
By John Voket
The calendar page has barely turned to June, but political activit...
FD Ladies Auxiliary Conducting Quilt, Gas Card & Healthy Basket Raffle
The Sandy Hook Fire & Rescue Company Ladies Auxiliary is running a raffle, with the top p...
Meeting On Glen Road Bridge Improvements
Slated For June 9
To improve the aging Glen Road bridge, which spans the Lake Zoar section of the Housatonic River and...
Watch Out
For Moose!
HARTFORD (AP) — Officials with the Department of Environmental Protection say a moose was spotted Monday on Porter Hill Road i...
Cards Sought For Praxair Cancer Center Patients
Area residents are invited to become CHEM-pals — Cheerful, Heartfelt, Encouragement, Message-pals â&...
Newtown Loses A Friend
Of Its Open Spaces
To the Editor:
Wes Gillingham, Sr, was a resident of Newtown for over 40 years and a member of the Newtown Forest Ass...
Concert Preview—
Brian Wilson’s Genius Take On Gershwin
By John Voket
RIDGEFIELD — Since its beginnings, popular musical art...
A Fresh Look At Smart Growth In Newtown
By Kendra Bobowick
Smart Growth can have a lot of meanings, said Conservation Commission Chairman Mary Gaudet-Wilson. Re...
I am sorry but $88.8 million dollars to educate 4030 kids is way out of line! That's over $22k per kid, used to be $8k per kid, the kids aren't getting any smarter, the administration eats all the cost. Time to cut the budget by 20% and also cut the $225k salary of the superintendent and $193k of the superintendent assistant ! You can get a lot of teachers for $400k wasted for 2 overpaid positions. Common sense should tell you that spending $2.5 million per every week for population less than 30k people is just way too high! Also voting should be done by mail, enough with these nonsensical referendums where barely 16% of voters show up. 51% voters approval should be MANDATED!
Who have you asked that didn't know where to cut? Its easy. Ideally, you would start with section 100 of the budget but the union prevents that. So I say you turn to page 18, put it on your dart board, and start reducing the head count. It's all you can do when the union controls the budget.
The people have spoken, time to sharpen your pencils. If we look at the town budget for guidance the BOE should cut the budget from 4.4% to 2.75% I find the voting results very interesting ... We have approximately 4,030 students in our town, with a published 12:1 ratio which means we have 335 teachers. I would love to know the actual number if someone knows. If we account for their spouses that gets us very close to the number of people who voted yes for the budget and wished it would be higher (729).